C1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to Improve Your Relationships

Lesson Summary:
This Advanced (C1) to Proficient (C2) ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking short video titled Five Ways to Improve Your Relationships. The lesson explores relationships, human connection and self-awareness, encouraging learners to reflect on communication, conflict and emotional honesty. Through viewing and discussion, roleplay, vocabulary development and an extended reading article, students build language skills while engaging with meaningful real-life themes.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to the themes of relationships, human connection and self-awareness.
• To expand students’ vocabulary related to relationships and emotional awareness.
• To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To improve students’ speaking skills through discussion and roleplay using new vocabulary.
• To develop students’ writing skills through creative and reflective tasks.
• To improve students’ visual representing skills through multimodal tasks.

Lesson Activities:
• Discussion of relationships and human connection.
• Predicting and analysing a short video.
• Comprehension and critical thinking tasks.
• Roleplay focusing on communication and boundaries.
• Reading an article on avoiding conflict in relationships.
• Reflective speaking and writing tasks.

Learner Type:
Advanced (C1) – Proficient (C2) mature teens and adults.

Language Focus:
• Vocabulary related to relationships
• Emotional awareness and self-reflection
• Communication and conflict

Benefits for Teachers:

• Save hours of preparation with a fully developed, flexible lesson plan
• Engage students through compelling stories and real-world themes such as emotional intelligence, character, values, empathy, personal development, identity, relationships, global issues and social issues
• Build classroom routines that integrate multimodal literacy naturally and progressively
• Foster more inclusive and differentiated learning by using varied modes of input
• Promote social-emotional learning (SEL)
• Rely on a trusted methodology backed by educational research and grounded in the theories of Vygotsky, Kress, Mayer and Krashen

Benefits for Learners:

• Develop communicative competence and confidence through integrated skill-building
• Expand vocabulary and improve listening and reading comprehension through repeated, meaningful exposure
• Think critically and creatively while exploring powerful social and emotional themes
• Strengthen emotional intelligence and intercultural awareness through affective engagement with multimodal texts

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